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    to Willits in 1995. Hiram Willits arrived from Indiana in 1857 to settle in the Little Lake Valley. Kirk Brier founded the settlement on Willits' land...
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  • Willits may refer to: Willits, California Willits Depot located in Willits, California Willits High School also located in Willits, California Willits...
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    of the Northwestern Pacific to Willits and the potential extension of Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) to Willits.[citation needed] Had the grant...
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    Edith Ceccarelli (category People from Willits, California)
    groceries by horse and buggy before opening a store in Willits in 1916. She graduated from Willits Union High School in 1927. Ceccarelli danced regularly...
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    airport serving the Mendocino coast. Willits Municipal Airport is a general aviation airport serving the Willits / Little Lake Valley area. Located in...
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    Charles S. Howard (category People from Willits, California)
    Charles Howard purchased the 16,000-acre (6,475 ha) Ridgewood Ranch at Willits in Mendocino County. His 15-year-old son, Frankie, died there in 1926 after...
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    Tré Cool (category People from Willits, California)
    Germany, to Frank Edwin Wright Jr. and Linda Wright. He lived in Willits, California, with his father and elder sister Lori. He has German heritage, and...
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    Russian River springs from the Laughlin Range about 5 mi (8 km) east of Willits in Mendocino County. It flows generally southward to Redwood Valley, then...
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    Boulevard. Construction on a freeway segment bypassing Willits began in 2013. The bypass around Willits remained controversial because the intended route goes...
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    1947, in Willits, California, six months before his grandsire Man o' War. He is buried at Ridgewood Ranch in Mendocino County, California. 1938 American...
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    Tommy Tutone (category People from Willits, California)
    Tommy Tutone Tommy Tutone in 2017 Background information Origin California, U.S. Genres Rock, pop rock, power pop, new wave Years active 1978–1984, 1996–present...
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    Ridgewood Ranch (category Buildings and structures in Mendocino County, California)
    Ridgewood Ranch is a large ranch situated 7 miles (11 km) south of Willits, California, in rural Mendocino County. It is probably best known for being the...
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  • The Willits News is a twice weekly newspaper covering Willits, California and northern Mendocino County. It has been reporting on the community since...
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    Eli Erlick (category People from Willits, California)
    She is of Jewish heritage and grew up near the rural community of Willits, California. She came out as transgender when she was 8 years old, when she started...
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  • Willits High School is a high school located in Willits, California. The school first held classes in September 1904 in a room on the second floor of...
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    Willits, California. At Willits the CFNR interchanged with the North Coast Railroad. The North Coast Railroad ran from Willits to Eureka, California over...
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    place (CDP) in Mendocino County, California, United States. It is located 23 miles (37 km) north-northwest of Willits, at an elevation of 1,670 feet (510 m)...
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  • Edna May Wonacott (category People from Willits, California)
    Wonacott was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elie Wonacott of Santa Rosa, California. In 1951, she married Robert Royce Green and had three sons. As of 2010...
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    "Redwood Summer sign size debate". Willits News. p. 1. "Protesters consider staying out of the woods". Willits News. May 30, 1990. p. 1. Switzer, Carrie...
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    Black Bart (outlaw) (category Criminals from California)
    the stage from Little Lake to Ukiah. Hiram Willits, Postmaster of Willitsville (present-day Willits, California), was on the stage. July 13, 1882: In Plumas...
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  • short "Welcome to Willits: After Sundown." The first film was made by the Ryans. Filmed in Louisiana, Los Angeles, and Willits, California. The Los Angeles...
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  • and other parts of the world. Muir, Willits, California, a former unincorporated community now incorporated in Willits Muir, Michigan, a village Muir, Pennsylvania...
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  • California Little Lake City School District Little Lake, California, former name of Willits, California This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct...
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    Bragg is a city along the North Coast of California in Mendocino County. The city is 24 miles (39 km) west of Willits, at an elevation of 85 feet (26 m). Its...
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    Jack in the Box (category 1951 establishments in California)
    restaurant chain founded in 1951, by Robert O. Peterson in San Diego, California, where it is headquartered. The chain has over 2,200 locations, primarily...
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    Willits station is a train station in Willits, California. It is the east end of California Western Railroad, which operates Skunk Train excursion service...
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    Erin Brockovich (category People from Agoura Hills, California)
    suit accused the Whitman Corporation of chromium contamination in Willits, California. Another, which listed 1,200 plaintiffs, alleged contamination near...
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    built entirely with straw bales. The Harrison Vault, in Joshua Tree, California, is engineered to withstand the high seismic loads in that area using...
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  • Akron Beacon Journal. Retrieved 2022-11-07. "1976 Nevada murder linked to California serial killer". WireUpdate. 8 March 2014. Archived from the original on...
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    Sally Miller Gearhart (category People from Willits, California)
    spent her later years in Willits, a small town situated in the heart of Mendocino County's "Redwood country" in northern California, before moving to a care...
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